Word: tejano
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...turned nine years old, a pretty Texas girl named Selena Quintanilla Perez was already singing at roadhouse dance halls and weddings, purveying a bright, up-tempo version of traditional Mexican-American border music. A little more than a decade later, she was the Grammy-winning queen of the booming "Tejano" music market, playing to crowds of 60,000 and selling more than 1.5 million records in the U.S. and Mexico. "Never in my dreams would I have thought that I would become this big," she told TIME in a recent interview. "I am still freaking...
...Antonio's 1.1 million residents are Hispanic, and some are up , in arms about the way a new film depicts the famous battle. Alamo -- The Price of Freedom is to run in a giant-screened theater near the fort. Hispanic leaders claim the film demeans the role of nine Tejano (Texas-born Mexican) defenders in the siege. Also "inaccurate and uncalled for," they say, is a scene that shows Mexican soldiers bayoneting Colonel Jim Bowie to death...
...have also seen some of the cultural benefits of the American presence. There is a $2 a hamburger "EL TEJANO" (The Texan), for example. It is frequented by bell-bottomed American students-the children of business and government people. They are very surprised when I take a picture of them. These girls seem to be from the South...